Paintball Guns or Paintball Markers are a firearm in Australia. To buy a Paintball Gun or Paintball Marker you must have a PTA (permit to acquire) or your relevant state equivalent. Remember to obtain a shooters licence you must have completed and passed a firearms safety course.

Can you have a paintball gun in Australia?

Paintball Guns or Paintball Markers are a firearm in Australia. To buy a Paintball Gun or Paintball Marker you must have a PTA (permit to acquire) or your relevant state equivalent. Remember to obtain a shooters licence you must have completed and passed a firearms safety course.

Are paint ball guns legal in NSW?

You need a permit to buy or own a paintball marker (paintball gun) in NSW. The permit does not allow you to use the paintball marker outside an authorised venue.

Why is there no airsoft in Australia?

Airsoft devices were initially banned in Australia in 1996 (at the Federal level) by restricting their importation through the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 by then Minister for Justice Senator Vanstone: “Many of the pistols look so real they could be used as de facto weapons in robberies.

Does Bill C 21 affect paintball?

The government’s firearm bill C-21 is all set to place a ban on airsoft guns and a number of paintball guns.

Are paintball guns legal in Western Australia?

Individual Firearm Licence – Western Australia You will need this licence to possess or use a firearm or paintball gun. A firearm licence entitles you to possess, carry and use the firearm or firearms identified in your licence, and ammunition for those firearms.

How old do you have to be to do paintball in Australia?

The legal age limit to play paintball varies across all states and territories of Australia. It ranges from a minimum age of 10 years old in South Australia, to 18 years of age in Victoria. As for NSW the legal paintball age is 16 years old.

Can you take your own paintball gun?

You can bring your own gun to national paintball centres, but you will only be able to use it if you have arranged a private game and only if it can operate from a Delta Force Paintball gas bottle. The use is at the discretion of the Centre Manager, and the gun will be subjected to a chronograph test.

Can I import paintball markers?

You do not need a permit to play paintball, only to own a paintball marker, operate a paintball business or bring a paintball marker into NSW from overseas.

Can you own a paintball gun in Queensland?

In Queensland, you must have a valid weapons licence to use a gun, crossbow, paintball gun or even certain types of knife. While a weapons licence allows you to operate a weapon – you will also need a permit to acquire to own or buy a weapon.

What is the new paintball gun law in NSW?

Paintball guns will be moved from NSW Police to the Department of Finance, Service and Innovation (DFSI). Paintball Guns will longer be classified as a Prohibited Firearm or even any type of firearm, rather it will be defined as a “Paintball Gun”. Age will be reduced to 12 to play paintball (18 to purchase paintball gun will remain).

How old do you have to be to play paintball in Australia?

The minimum ages to play paintball is 16 years in Victoria, 18 years in Northern Territory, 16 years in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, 15 years in Queensland, 12 years in Western Australia and 10 years in South Australia.

Why was paintball banned in Australia?

* Note that 1996 is the year of Australia’s worst mass shooting at Port Arthur in Tasmania. This is also the reason paintball was banned in that state. This year (2016) is the 20th anniversary of that tragic event.

What are the rules of paintballing?

You must also wear enclosed shoes and other clothing that covers as much of the body as is reasonable in the circumstance. You can’t enter a paintball area at any time when there is a paintball marker already in the area.